Dish-mop.



C. a. ELMORE.

msn MOP. APPLICATION FILED DEC- 27, I915.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. ELMORE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO J. M. SHERWOOD MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification 01' Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

Application filed December 27, 1915. Serial No. 68,904.

To all whom it may concern State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dish- Mops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention-relates to dish inops and like utensils, and has for an object to provide means for attaching to the handle an improved mop head made up of cordage certain of whose strands are wound with narrow metal strips as of copper, the whole formed into a skein which is embraced byv the fastening means.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed. r

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a View of th completed dish mop in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a view of the end of the handle mem er shown in perspective and disassociated from the head. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the handle and fragments of the head attached showing the means of attaching the head to the handle. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the end 'of the handle with the head removed and part of the fastening member broken away. Fig. 5 is a sectional view diametrically through the handle and the skein .of the head. Fig. 6 is an enlarged exaggerated detail view of one strand of the corda e made u of twisted cords, each woun with a'strlp of metal.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved dish mop which forms the subject-matter of this. application comprises a handlemember 10 of any required or desired length and configuration, having a transverse slot 11 formed across one end, which end is formed of a plurality of stepped cylinders 12 and 13 with a circumferential groove 14 formed at the base of the cylinder 13. The diametrical slot 11 transects t e several cylinders 12 and 13 and the slot 14 as well as the circumferential shoulder 15, which is not wholly material to the invention.

The cleaning fabric 16 is preferably formed in a skein with the wire 17 embracing the central portion of the same. The extremities 18 and 19 of the wire 16 are then inserted in the slot 11 until the skein rests upon the ferrule 20 which has been slipped upon the cylindrical portion 12 before the wire 16 is put into place or is first slipped over the extremities 18 and 19 and is inserted with the skein. In either case, the extremities occupy the position shown at Fig. 3 extending downwardly in theslot 11 by the groove 14. A wire 21 is now wound about the handle within the groove 14 embracing the extremities 18 and 19 of the wire 17 the extremities of the wire 21 being united in any usual and ordinary manner as by the twist 22 shown at Fig. 4. The attaching is now completed by the bending of the extremities 18 and 19 about the Wire 21 as shown at Figs. 1, 4 and 5, the ends of such extremities being seated within the slot 14 to prevent their catching upon any extraneous articles. By this means the mop head is quickly and permanently attached to the handle. The cordage itself comprises a hank of strands made up of twisted cords 23 and 24 about each of which has been previously wound a film-like shaving or strip of metal 25 so that the complete mop head is a skein which includes a very large numberof sharp or cutting metallic edges which, when drawn over the surface to be cleaned, act as individual scrapers to remove from such surface matter adhering thereto.

I claim 1. A mophead composed of cordage whose strands are made up of twisted cor s CHARLES B.-ELMORE.' Witnesses:

A. T. SAMBALEM,

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